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Archibald Standish Hartrick
Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work. His works covered urban scenes, landscapes and figure painting and he was a founder member of the Senefelder Club. Life and work Hartrick was born in Bangalore, the son of Captain William Hartrick of the 7th Regiment of Foot and his wife Josephine Smith, daughter of Dr Archibald Smith of Edinburgh. The family moved to Scotland when Hartrick was two years old. His father died shortly afterwards and in due course his mother married Charles Blatherwick, a doctor and keen amateur watercolourist who had been involved in the establishment of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. After attending Fettes College, Hartrick studied medicine at Edinburgh University before studying art at the Slade School of Art in London and then at both the Academie Julian and the Atelier Cormon in Paris. He spent the summer of 1886 at Pont-Aven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Karnataka. As per the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census, the city had a population of 8.4 million, making it the List of cities in India by population, third most populous city in India and the most populous in South India. The Bengaluru metropolitan area had a population of around 8.5 million, making it the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, fifth most populous urban agglomeration in the country. It is located near the center of the Deccan Plateau, at a height of above sea level. The city is known as India's "Garden City", due to its parks and greenery. Archaeological artifacts indicate that the human settlement in the region happened as early as 4000 Common Era, BCE. The first mention of the name "Bengalooru" is from an ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes Trees and Undergrowth (Van Gogh series), landscapes, Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris), still lifes, Portraits by Vincent van Gogh, portraits, and Portraits of Vincent van Gogh, self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic Paintwork, brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, ''The Red Vineyard'', was sold. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tresham
Tresham is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It was transferred back from the county of Avon in 1991, having been in Gloucestershire before 1972. It is now in Stroud District Stroud District is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. The district is named after its largest town of Stroud. The council is based at Ebley Mill in the district of Cainscross, west of central Stroud. The district also ..., and forms part of the civil parish of Hillesley and Tresham. It is on the Monarch's Way and near the Cotswold Way (). According to Pevsner Tresham Church, built in a Norman style on the site of a previous church building, dates from 1855. Burden Court Farm was originally the home of Charles II's Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale (1609–76). It was later the home of Lord (Jack) and Lady (Frances) Donaldson. References External linksTresham village website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the fine arts through exhibitions, education and debate. History The origin of the Royal Academy of Arts lies in an attempt in 1755 by members of the Royal Society of Arts, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, principally the sculptor Henry Cheere, to found an autonomous academy of arts. Before this, several artists were members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, including Cheere and William Hogarth, or were involved in small-scale private art academies, such as the St Martin's Lane Academy. Although Cheere's attempt failed, the eventual charter, called an 'Instrument', used to establish the Royal Academy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New English Art Club
The New English Art Club (NEAC) is a society for contemporary artists that was founded in London, England, in 1886 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. The NEAC holds an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and artists from Britain and abroad whose work has been selected from an annual open submission. History Young English artists returning from studying art in Paris, France, mounted the first exhibition of the New English Art Club in April 1886. Among them were William Laidlay, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Frank Bramley, John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer, George Clausen and Stanhope Forbes. Another founding member was G. P. Jacomb-Hood. An early name suggested for the group was the "Society of Anglo-French Painters", which gives some indication of their origins. As a note in the catalogue to their first exhibition explained, "This Club consists of 50 Members, who are more or less united in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pall Mall Budget
The ''Pall Mall Budget'' was a weekly magazine published in London from 1868 until 1920. It was a weekly digest of articles from evening newspaper '' The Pall Mall Gazette'' (1865 to 1923). The ''Pall Mall Budget'' was re-launched in 1893 by William Waldorf Astor. C. Lewis Hind was its editor from 1893 to 1895. The full title in 1869, as displayed on the title page of Volume 2 as bound, was ''The PALL MALL BUDGET Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the PALL MALL GAZETTE from day to day: With a Summary of News.'' References External links ''The Pall Mall Budget''at Hathitrust Digital Library (holdings from 1869 to 1889) News magazines published in the United Kingdom Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines published in London Magazines established in 1868 Magazines disestablished in 1920 Budget A budget is a calculation plan, usually but not always financial plan, financial, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ludgate Monthly
''The Ludgate Monthly'' was a London-based monthly magazine, which published short fiction and articles of general interest. There were 118 issues from May 1891 to February 1901; the magazine then merged with ''The Universal Magazine''. The magazine was published from May 1891 to October 1893 under the title ''The Ludgate Monthly'' for 30 issues, from November 1893 to October 1895 under the title ''The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine'' for 24 issues, from November 1895 to February 1901 under the title ''The Ludgate'' for 64 issues, and was then merged into ''The Universal Magazine''. ''The Ludgate Weekly'' was a spinoff magazine which lasted less than a year (from 5 March to 1 October 1892); the first issue of this weekly had a Conan Doyle stor''The Great Brown-Pericord Motor'' Philip May (the novelist, not the caricaturist Phil May), was the editor of ''The Ludgate Monthly'' from its 1891 inception (selling for three pence per copy) to 1894. The first issue contained stories by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Chronicle
The ''Daily Chronicle'' was a left-wing British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the '' Daily News'' to become the '' News Chronicle''. Foundation The ''Daily Chronicle'' was developed by Edward Lloyd out of a local newspaper that had started life as the ''Clerkenwell News and Domestic Intelligencer'', set up as a halfpenny 4-page weekly in 1855. Launched after the duties on advertising and published news had been abolished in 1853 and July 1855, this local paper specialised in small personal ads. At first, it carried about three times as much advertising as it did local news. As the formula proved popular, it grew in size and frequency and often changed its name to match. In 1872, it finally changed from the ''London Daily Chronicle and Clerkenwell News'' to plain ''Daily Chronicle''. It was then being published daily in eight pages, half of which were news and half advertising. Edward Lloyd was keenly interested in advertising. It had the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black And White (magazine)
''Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review'' was a British Victorian-era illustrated weekly periodical founded in 1891 by Charles Norris Williamson. In 1912, it was incorporated with '' The Sphere''. History and contributors ''Black & White'' magazine provided English readers with coverage of the Anglo-Boer War. It also published fiction by Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert Barr, A. E. W. Mason, Jerome K. Jerome and E. Nesbit. Others who wrote for ''Black and White'' included Samuel Bensusan, J. Keighley Snowden, Philip Howard Colomb, Nora Hopper, Henry Dawson Lowry, Robert Wilson Lynd, Theodore Bent, and Barry Pain. In its first year, ''Black and White'' published "A Straggler of '15", a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, and began serializing "The South Seas", a series of letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.ODNB May Sinclair published her first short story, "A Study from Life", in the magazine in November 1895. The periodical carried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pall Mall Magazine
''The Pall Mall Magazine'' was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914. Begun by William Waldorf Astor as an offshoot of '' The Pall Mall Gazette'', the magazine included poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, and general commentaries, along with extensive artwork. It was notable in its time as the first British magazine to "publish illustrations in number and finish comparable to those of American periodicals of the same class" much of which was in the late Pre-Raphaelite style. It was often compared to the competing publication ''The Strand Magazine''; many artists, such as illustrator Sidney Paget and author H. G. Wells, sold freelance work to both. During its run, the magazine published many of the most significant artists of the day, including illustrators George Morrow and Edmund Joseph Sullivan, poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Rudyard Kipling, and authors such as Julian Osgood Field, Bernard Capes, Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Graphic
''The Graphic'' was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company, Illustrated Newspapers Ltd with Thomas's brother, Lewis Samuel Thomas, as a co-founder. The Graphic was set up as a rival to the popular ''Illustrated London News''. In addition to its home market, the paper had subscribers all around the British Empire and North America. ''The Graphic'' sought to bring awareness to prevailing issues in the British empire such as poverty, homelessness, and public health. The newspaper aimed to cover home news and news from around the Empire, and devoted much attention to literature, arts, sciences, the fashionable world, sport, music and opera. Royal occasions, national celebrations, and ceremonies were also given prominent coverage. The newspaper used its illustrations to capture authentic scenes throughout London and had an immense influence on the art world with many admirers including Vincent van Gogh and Hubert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
